House Clears Deck For Civil Rights Action in Senate Fight
The House moves to a decisive civil rights debate focusing on voting rights and a plan to appoint referees for Negroes blocked from voting. Southern opposition prepares delaying tactics as the Senate stalls on a cloture motion while a March debate continues.
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Edmond LE Breton Ashington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Richard L. Neuberger
D-Ore
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Death penalty ban debate opens in California legislature
In Sacramento California the legislatures opening hearing on a bill to end the death penalty features Clinton T Duffy who recounts a 1930s case at San Quentin. He served 11 years as warden and says he received a governor ordered reprieve due to new evidence.
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Jerry Reynolds
Duffy
Edwin J. Regan
Caryl Chessman
California
Regan
Chessman
Edmund G. Brown
San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Los Angeles
California Adult Authority
Treasure Box of Cash Found by Schoolboys
A Melbourne area schoolboy found a hidden wooden box containing 50 000 Australian pounds about 112 000 dollars. Twenty boys learned of the stash and planned to take small sums, but greed broke the pact and cash-raid activity spread. Police investigated as detectives questioned 20 boy spenders and the story heads to further pages.
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United Press
Interna Qydney
Fireman Injured After Fall During Lubbock Plant Blaze
A Lubbock firefighter, 23 year old William T. Graham, fell 35 to 40 feet from an aerial ladder while directing a hose at a burning packing plant. He suffered a head cut and possible back injury but had no fractures and was in fair condition after treatment at West Texas Hospital. The blaze at Keeton Livestock Co. partly demolished building originated from a cutting torch and the incident occurred during demolition work.
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Keeton Livestock Comen Co
4Th St. and
Quirt Ve
Graham
9Th St
Claude and
Sidney Keeton
Rogstad Zachary
Neuberger’s Widow Urged to Seek U.S. Senate Seat
In Oregon, Maurine Neuberger, widow of Senator Richard L. Neuberger who died at 47, faces pressure from Democrats to run for his unexpired term. She was a prominent former state legislator praised as “half of this senatorial team.” Governor Hatfield would appoint a Democrat to serve until November. Potential GOP rivals include Edith Green, Charles O. Porter, and Robert Duncan.
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Maurine Neuberger
U.S
Richard L. Neuberger
D-Ore
Senate
Neuberger
Neuber
Ger
Set
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Denver
Rcenterineek
Edith Green
Poem Fragment in Radio TV Programs Page
A brief verse fragment remarks on poets unable to earn dollars from verse and hints at lack of meaning or sense in the effort. The fragment reflects a satirical tone about poetry's financial failure and audience reception.
Bunny Rabbit Bops Into Boy During Sledding Accident
In Elizabethtown Kentucky 12 year old David C Jarrett was knocked by a rabbit while sledding. The impact left a deep forehead gash and teeth embedded in his skin. His father removed fur and fragments of the rabbit from the wound.
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Elizabethtown
David C. Jarrett
David
Dave
Kingpins Nabbed in Midwest Narcotics Sweep
Federal narcotics agents arrested three men described as kingpins of a syndicate distributing drugs in the Middle West. Those taken into custody were Anthony Dichiarint e Lincolnwood Illinois Salvatore Pisano Chicago Illinois and Spartico Mastro River Forest Illinois.
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Chicago
UPI
Middle West
Anthony Dichiarinte
Lincolnwood
Salvatore Pisano
Spartico Mastro
River Forest
Fight For Girl Stirs Sympathy Across the Nation
The Combs seek to keep foster child Alice Marie as public sympathy grows. Letters telegrams and calls pour in from New England to California criticizing New Jersey's effort to remove the 4 year old girl. A New York doctor lauds parental love despite economic and educational limits. Texas marks May 14 as Texas Tech Day and designates April 4–10 as Boys Club Week.
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Associated Press
LD Bridge
N. J
New England
California
Richard Combs
Alice Marie
Combs
New Jersey
New York
Austin
Price Daniel
Texas Tech
Texas
Pay Raise and Postal Rate Link in Congress Action
House committee votes to start hearings on a federal pay raise for about 1.5 million workers and a postal rate increase, tying the two to election year politics. Eisenhower proposals seek higher revenue and potential rate boosts, with debates about carrier costs and voter impact.
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Vincent J. Burkett
UPI
Eisenhower
House Post Office
Civil Service Committee
U.S
Tom Murray
Dtenn
Congress
Traffic death rates drop 61 percent on South Plains
Area fatalities through March 10 total nine this year versus 23 by the same date last year. In Lubbock city nine deaths last year fell to three. February saw only two fatalities statewide. Officials attribute the decline partly to bad weather slowing traffic and emphasize it is early to judge annual trends.
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Jim Seaver
Avalanche-Journal
99Th District Grand Jury
Howard C. Davison
Dist. Atty
George E. Gilkerson
Lafayette Locke
Birch Ave
Johnnell Bryant
Marie
Hanie Blaylock
Ave. B
Jessie DeLuna
Ave. M
Gilbert C
Boi
N. Ave. N
Tanner Laine
South Plains
Lubbock
E. L. Posey
Highway Patrol
Lewis Kittrell
Posey
Kittrell
Record snowstorm cripples vast region with states of emergency
A massive Midwest to Atlantic snowstorm halted towns, factories, and mines. Governors in two states declared emergencies as Evansville Indiana and Bowling Green Kentucky faced near paralysis. Nine inches added to existing snow. hospitals isolated. funerals postponed. NCAA games continued in Evansville amid widespread disruption.
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Avalanche-Journal
Midwest
Missouri
Ilinois
Nebraska
Indiana
Iowa
Evansville
Ind
Bowling Green
Hoosier State
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Virginia
Munfordville
Bonnieville
Park City
Wind and Dust Threaten Lubbock Area This Afternoon
Winds 15 to 30 mph from the south whip across Lubbock and the South Plains with dust. Temperatures peak around 77 after a low near 32, while a weak cold front clears clouds and fog in southern Gulf regions. The regional forecast calls for springlike warmth through Sunday with light showers possible in West Texas Saturday.
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Lubbock
South Plains
Gulf
Prospect
West Texas
Weather map page reads mixed conditions in Lubbock area
Partly cloudy and warmer with afternoon dust in the Lubbock vicinity. Southerly winds 15 to 30 mph. Low 32, high 70. Humidity near 53 percent. no significant precipitation reported. City figures for Abilene Dallas Roswell Amarillo and Denver listed.
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Lubbock
Os Dam
Ceeseer
Bosb Pam
Tobin
Seeenese Bop
Seeenese Bop, Ceeesene
Abilene
EL Pao
Albuquerque
Hous
Amarillo
Dallas
Roswell
Denver
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Creston
Mary Kay Dunphy
Sharon
Gene Dunphy
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TECH
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London
Corbin
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